Quote of the week: “It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course”. — Hank Aaron

Welcome to the newly improved Saticoy Seniors website. I took the posted photo a couple of months ago at the green to hole #4 looking west. The full-size photo is a lot more dramatic than this cut-down version because you can see a lot more of the sunset, but I had to make it fit into the slot. On another note, don’t forget we start at 7:30 AM next Thursday. Congratulations to the foursome of Richard Wibbelman, Jim Olguin, Michael Peltier and Angel Barraza who won the two-man best- ball tournament. Also, don’t forget to check out the nice photos of the Wedgewood luncheon submitted by Richard Kohnmann. Just click on the top right button under “recent posts”. Regarding the “results” posting, for some reason there’s a bit of distortion present. Earl, if you send me an improved version, I can replace the bad one.

Quote of the week: “My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch”. — Lee Trevino

Congratulations go out to Fred Rudy. Not only did he have the best gross score with an 84, but he also had the best net score with a 62. Way to go Fred. I just received the following message: Next week, instead of having the usual four-man scramble, we will be having a two-man best-ball tournament. I want to be paired up with Fred Rudy.

Quote of the week: “The reason the pro instructor tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing”. — Phyllis Diller

We had a great luncheon and meeting today at the Wedgewood. Here’s the latest news for those who did not attend. Manny Lopez, who worked at the Saticoy Golf Course as a groundskeeper, passed away Sunday. He was only 40 years old and leaves behind a wife and children. He was the employee that could be seen wearing orange headphones while he worked. When we held the usual raffle at the luncheon, all the winners chose to donate their cash prizes to help out Manny’s family. Approximately $ 400.00 was collected. Regarding the time change coming up for the start time of our tournaments, some members wanted to leave the time at 8AM, while others wanted to return to the 7AM start time. After a vote was taken, which resulted in a tie, it was decided that we would compromise. Beginning April 2, 2015, the start time for our tournaments will be 7:30AM. Other news: The skins money collected for each tournament will be divided equally among all the winners. For example, if there are 4 winners and $ 60.00 in skin money, each winner will receive $ 15.00. This method of payout will remain in effect for a 30 day trial run.

Congratulations to our two top golfers from this week’s tournament. Richard Guzik had the best gross score with a 76 and Rudy Pena had the best net score with a 58. Excellent play guys.

Sorry I’m a little late posting the Elkin’s Tournament results. I had about 100 emails come through on my account Monday and the results got buried on a back page. Since they were out of sight, they ended up out of mind. My goal is to get results posted on the same day I receive them which is usually the same day of a tournament. Anyway, the top golfer for this tournament was Ron Laufer with an 84 (gross). Our golfer with the top net score was Eugene Charbonnea with a 61. Congratulations guys.

Quote of the week: “Golf is like a love affair. If you don’t take it seriously, it is no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.” —Arthur Daley

Congratulations to this month’s scramble champions. The foursome of Fenelon, Carlson, Wright and Foss took the win with a 65 gross score/ 54 net. The following information is being posted one more time to make sure everyone receives it. At this month’s monthly SSMGC Board meeting, the subject of maximum-handicap-index as it as it relates to skin money, came up. It was decided (voted on) that the maximum HC index for the purpose of determining a skin-win, would be capped at 36. This means that no one will have a 3-pop advantage (per hole) during a tournament. Higher handicap indexes will still be accepted for the purpose of determining net scores.

Well we made it through another great day of golfing. There’s an old fishing adage that can be tweaked to apply to golf: The worst day golfing is better than the best day pulling weeds at home. Anyway, congratulations to our top scorers this week. Richard Guzik had the best gross score with an 80 and Charles McLaughlin had the best net score with a 59.